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<blockquote data-quote="Jon K" data-source="post: 2110762" data-attributes="member: 468182"><p>Your BG is going to go up after eating regardless of whether you exercise or not. If you are excising then it will go up less.</p><p></p><p>If you watch your meter reading you'll see them rise after 20 minutes or so when the easily digested sugars start to take effect, then the simple carbs after and hour, and the complex carbs may well be having an effect 3 to 4 hours after eating them.</p><p></p><p>Exercising just softens the spike a bit and generally improves your health and well being. Diabetes causes a lot of side effects, many of which are lessened by regular exercise so generally you should eat less carb, ideally complex carbs, and regularly exercise for 30 minutes a day with two strength sessions as well somewhere in the week.</p><p></p><p>I do go for a walk about 90 minutes after eating just to pull the numbers down, and that does work. I can get from a 6.4 down to 5.5 or so with 10 minutes of effort.</p><p></p><p>However - exercise can make your numbers go up as the body reacts to a need to metabolise fat into glucose for your muscles to work. I can get down to 4.8 or so if I fast and sit in front of the TV, but when I'm moving about I rarely get below 5.4.</p><p></p><p>Jon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jon K, post: 2110762, member: 468182"] Your BG is going to go up after eating regardless of whether you exercise or not. If you are excising then it will go up less. If you watch your meter reading you'll see them rise after 20 minutes or so when the easily digested sugars start to take effect, then the simple carbs after and hour, and the complex carbs may well be having an effect 3 to 4 hours after eating them. Exercising just softens the spike a bit and generally improves your health and well being. Diabetes causes a lot of side effects, many of which are lessened by regular exercise so generally you should eat less carb, ideally complex carbs, and regularly exercise for 30 minutes a day with two strength sessions as well somewhere in the week. I do go for a walk about 90 minutes after eating just to pull the numbers down, and that does work. I can get from a 6.4 down to 5.5 or so with 10 minutes of effort. However - exercise can make your numbers go up as the body reacts to a need to metabolise fat into glucose for your muscles to work. I can get down to 4.8 or so if I fast and sit in front of the TV, but when I'm moving about I rarely get below 5.4. Jon. [/QUOTE]
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